Events in Cinema Massimo
From the 13th to the 31st March 2010
The National Museum of Cinema’s tribute to Jean-Luc Godard continues
Cinema Massimo continues its tribute to the film director Jean-Luc Godard, organised by the National Museum of Cinema to celebrate his 80th birthday. The tribute, which began last February, will feature one event every month until June. This second episode presents Godard’s career from 1965 to 1969, including a wide selection of films that Godard loved and reviewed as critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.
This large retrospective festival has been organised by Bologna city council’s Cineteca film archive, together with Regione Emilia-Romagna, Angelica Festival, the National Museum of Cinema, Cinémathèque Suisse and Lo Sguardo dei Maestri (Udine) as well as the French Embassy, Alliance Française of Bologna and support from the Gaumont Archives, Studio Canal, Tamasa Distribution, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Cine Classics, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Suomen Elokuva Arkisto. Special thanks go to Sylvie Pras (Centre Pompidou). The director of the project is Jean Douchet.
Monday 15 March 2010, at 4.30 p.m.
A screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There will be blood as part of the L’ULTIMO SPETTACOLO / SCHERMI AMERICANI (THE LAST SHOW/AMERICAN SCREENS) festival.
The National Museum of Cinema and Dams - University of Turin’s college for the performing arts present Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There will be blood, introduced and presented by Paolo Parachini and Andrea Chimento. Admission: 4 euros, university students 3 euros.
The L’ULTIMO SPETTACOLO / SCHERMI AMERICANI. Il cinema USA degli ultimi 40 anni (THE LAST SHOW/AMERICAN SCREENS: US cinema of the last 40 years) is organised by the National Museum of Cinema, Dams – University of Turin and the university group Gli Ultracorpi in conjunction with the History of North American Cinema course and the G. Quazza Multimedia Lab. The project will involve a series of events, meetings and screenings that aim to study not just North American cinema, but its history, culture and society as well, using a selection of key films of the last 40 years.
Tuesday 16 March 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
Cinema Massimo hosts the Third Biennial Festival of Lay Cinema.
Organised by the Consulta Torinese per la Laicità delle Istituzioni in partnership with the National Museum of Cinema, and headed by the film critic Gabriele Barrera, the Third Biennial Festival of Lay Cinema opens on Tuesday, the 16th of March in Screen Three of Cinema Massimo at 8.30 p.m. with Vittorio Moroni’s film Eva e Adamo. The film will be introduced by the film’s director and the festival’s director, Gabriele Barrera, as well as Tullio Monti, head of Consulta Torinese per la Laicità delle Istituzioni.
The festival intends to discuss the approach of lay thinking and lay ethics when faced with the individual and collective challenges and dilemmas that are part of modern life, presenting this to Turin’s public using the aesthetic language and cultural tools of cinematic art.
Ten films will be screened between March and May, films that will tackle several important themes of contemporary society, a society which is increasingly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious. Admission: 4 euros.